Top 100 I'm A Perfectionist Quotes
#1. I'm a perfectionist. I'm not going to cheat the people.
Dick Dale
#2. I'm a perfectionist and I can kill songs because I analyze them too much. For me it takes awhile because I like to do it and then step back and listen and observe.
John Reuben Zappin
#3. Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
Jack Nicklaus
#5. I'm a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.
Emma Watson
#6. I work very hard at relationships. I've done the thing of being home. I worked all day and came home and did all the stuff at home that a woman is supposed to do, the cooking and the entertaining. I'm a perfectionist, and, besides, I loved all those things.
Jacqueline Bisset
#8. It sounds funny, but my biggest fear is that I'm not perfect. I'm a perfectionist, and I get upset when things go wrong or when I don't do well.
Nick Jonas
#9. I like pushing myself, and usually if I'm not good at something I just won't do it because I'm a perfectionist.
Matthew Morrison
#10. I'm a perfectionist. I need to be needed. I need to do things for a man. But I don't need to do them as much, these days.
Jacqueline Bisset
#11. Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.
Chris Evert
#12. I'm a perfectionist to a default. I will drive you crazy sometimes. When I'm recording, I will try something a trillion times to get it right.
Sevyn Streeter
#13. I'm a perfectionist, so it's hard for me to just accept that that I can't keep working until it's perfected. But I'm learning, I'm growing as a human in that way.
Taissa Farmiga
#14. I'm a perfectionist and, when it comes to people I want to work with, I have changed my mind, like, millions of times.
Cassie Ventura
#15. I'm a perfectionist, so doing a high quality, high caliber television show with great actors makes me feel like there's this whole world of television that I've never experienced.
Vinessa Shaw
#16. I'm a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it's good.
Luciano Pavarotti
#17. I'm a perfectionist. I'm very critical, especially artistically.
Vin Diesel
#18. I'm a perfectionist. I won't do a thing without trying to do it well.
Pat Nixon
#19. I'm a perfectionist; there's always something we need to improve upon, and I think that's a really healthy model for artistic growth and progressing. I'm not ready for a masterpiece.
Michael Angelakos
#20. I'm a perfectionist, to the point of insanity.
Tom Ford
#22. I'm a perfectionist, so I always feel there's room for improvement.
Ludacris
#23. I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on.
Serena Williams
#24. The problem is I'm a perfectionist, so the producer might say he's happy with my vocal take but I'll say, 'No, it can be better.' I'll do it again and again until I feel I've got the truth out of a song.
Nicole Scherzinger
#25. I'm a perfectionist, so I can drive myself mad - and other people, too. At the same time, I think that's one of the reasons I'm successful. Because I really care about what I do.
Michelle Pfeiffer
#26. I'm a perfectionist and if I start making changes, I'll never stop.
Al Franken
#27. I'm a perfectionist ... So to me, if I had my way, a song is never perfect, never finished.
Dia Frampton
#28. When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist.
Coco Lee
#30. I'm a perfectionist. I can't help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least.
Justin Timberlake
#31. I'm a perfectionist in recovery. I'm trying to deal with that monster inside of me that wants to do everything right. Or better than right.
Shakira
#33. I'm a perfectionist - I could rewrite forever.
Jenna Bush
#34. I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.
Michael Jackson
#35. People tell me I'm a perfectionist. They tell me I'm too extreme and that I work too hard. I tell them, that is all I know how to do. I was taught to give my best effort in everything I do and demand perfection and raise the standard of excellence to a whole new level.
Robert Cheeke
#36. I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there.
Tyra Banks
#37. I don't know if I'll ever go through with it. I'm just too much of a perfectionist, I guess.
I'd rather be nothing than be middle-of-the-road."
She hugged me tightly.
"You're not middle-of-the-road, Topher. You're fast lane, all the way. You just, you know, need to find the right car.
Amelia C. Gormley
#38. I'm a different person off the court than I am on the court, where I'm very competitive, a perfectionist, and I can be hard on myself sometimes. Off the court, nothing really bothers me. I'm easy-going.
Mary Pierce
#39. One thing that stays the same is my passion for music. Other than that, I've become more dedicated. I think that I really work much harder than I ever did when I first started at my craft; I'm more dedicated, and I have become a perfectionist.
Natalie Cole
#40. I am a perfectionist. This job is a total ego thing in a way. To be a designer and say, 'This is the way they should dress; this is the way their homes should look; this is the way the world should be.' But then, that's the goal: world domination through style.
Tom Ford
#41. Not to be such a perfectionist, it makes life hard. I'd like to be more relaxed about everything.
Heather Small
#42. If I'm not playing well, I do get down on myself because I am a perfectionist. [So I need] someone who believes in me more than I believe in me, someone willing to work as hard as I work. I don't understand what no means or what failure means; I only understand what yes means and try again means.
Serena Williams
#44. As you all know, I'm kind of a perfectionist.
Tiger Woods
#45. I live to collect information, and I am also a perfectionist.
Meghan O'Rourke
#46. I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.
Dennis Quaid
#47. I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself.
Rachel Zoe
#48. I loved Chiara Mastroianni voice, her talent, her generosity. We rehearsed for two months ... She's a workaholic and perfectionist, like Vincent [ Paronnaud] and myself.
Marjane Satrapi
#49. I am not a perfectionist ... if you believe that your best is good enough, you will find happiness. The unknown can be exciting and full of opportunity but you have to be involved and you have to be able to evolve.
Alice Bag
#50. 'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?
Mara Wilson
#51. [Stanley] Kubrick was a great artist and a perfectionist. He always wanted the exact right thing. He did a million takes. Everything had to be perfect. I'm an imperfectionist. I don't really care that much about the work. I write quickly. I'm careless. I shoot carelessly.
Woody Allen
#52. I'm such a perfectionist. I always feel overpraised or whatever. In the abstract, I know I'm a good person, a good professional. But it's nice to be noticed a little bit, ain't it?
Jack Nicholson
#53. I'm a bit of a perfectionist, and I want to give 100 percent to everything.
Sarah McLachlan
#54. I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.
Sam Claflin
#55. I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't you if, I mean I, I have body issues that's my thing so you find something to focus on when you're a perfectionist, I think.
Natalie Imbruglia
#56. I'm not a perfectionist, but I like discipline. I'm obedient, but I'm not a perfectionist. I think it's important to work your hardest and be as kind as possible to everyone you work with. The goal, every day, is keeping focused on that.
Natalie Portman
#57. I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I want to try it again and again, and a lot of times my fellow musicians have to hold me back and say, "Nah, I think we got it."
Mary Chapin Carpenter
#58. I'm a bit of a perfectionist, it turns out. Who knew?
Blake Nelson
#59. I'm a big perfectionist! I'm trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.
Ariana Grande
#60. I'm a pretty chaotic person, but I'm also a perfectionist. It's a very unfortunate mix.
Pawel Pawlikowski
#62. I'm such a perfectionist. I can be like, 'This has to be like this. And this, and this and this.' But then you realize a lot of things that you thought mattered, they really don't matter.
Ciara
#63. I'm definitely a perfectionist. I started entertaining so young. I think, naturally, my personality is that of a perfectionist, and then on top of that, growing up in the industry, I became very objective and analytical of myself early on, and I find myself doing that in everything.
Keke Palmer
#65. I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.
Adam Jones
#66. I'm more of a perfectionist. I need to be sure everything is exactly where I would want it.
Spencer Krug
#67. I'm like a recovering perfectionist. For me it's one day at a time.
Brene Brown
#68. I'm a better cook and more of a perfectionist than my mother.
Alexis Stewart
#69. I'm a serious student of music, a perfectionist in the studio, and I take the arrangement and production of it very seriously, down to the mixing and mastering even. But at the same time I'm having so much fun with it. I try not to take myself so seriously.
Mayer Hawthorne
#70. I'm not a perfectionist but I'm definitely, or well, I like discipline. I'm obedient. I'm not a perfectionist.
Natalie Portman
#71. Just the other day I came across a statement: A perfectionist is a person who takes great pains, and gives even greater pains to others. And the outcome is just a miserable world!
Osho
#72. I'm not a perfectionist at all. I find perfectionists boring because the real creative heart is in the mess somewhere.
David Morrissey
#74. I'm such a perfectionist and I like to have everything just right, but at the same time I try to be as real and as genuine as I can be in my life and in my career.
Josh Turner
#75. I've got a big closet of scripts, and a big stack of scripts on the side of my desk, because you get a whole bunch. Nothing's going to be perfect, and I realize that; but I am a perfectionist, so you go through a lot of stuff.
Chris Tucker
#76. I always feel like I'm rehearsing. I'm a workaholic. But youve got to let go and trust and enjoy! I'm a real perfectionist. Its probably my biggest disadvantage. But as long as I can go out there, trust in the work and just have fun, thats what matters.
Nicole Scherzinger
#77. I let everyone have [the] space to do what they want, but I think I'm still a bit of a perfectionist.
Gustav Ejstes
#78. I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection
Tupac Shakur
#79. I am they type of person that once I make a decision, I must execute. Maybe I am a perfectionist in this way.
Brad Dourif
#80. I am by nature a perfectionist, and I seem to have trouble allowing anything to go through in a half-perfect condition. So if I made any mistake it was in working too hard and in doing too much of it with my own hands.
Howard Hughes
#81. People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.
James Cameron
#82. I am a perfectionist. When I take a picture ... it's gotta be good.
Weegee
#83. I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right.
Garry Shandling
#84. When you write, produce, engineer and mix everything yourself, it tends to take a long time to do anything. And when you're a perfectionist little monster, it makes it even harder. But it's a blast and I wouldn't trade the opportunity for all the ice cream sandwiches in the universe.
Adam Young
#85. And I deal with all that by being like a perfectionist. But that's okay.
Jennifer Lopez
#86. I've let go of being a super perfectionist on every single note and wanting the pitch to be absolutely perfect all of the time. I grew up watching the best of the best.
Solange Knowles
#87. I'm very driven by what I do. I am certainly very competitive. I like people who represent the best at what they do, and if that turns you into a perfectionist, then maybe I am.
Anna Wintour
#88. I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.
Rachel Zoe
#90. I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.
Olly Murs
#92. I was into the music scene, but I was also a bit of a perfectionist and very hard on myself ... very dark in that way.
Janet Fitch
#93. I'm a bit of a perfectionist, but you have to know you're going to make mistakes. It's how you respond to those mistakes that counts.
Sue Bird
#94. But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.
Andy Hertzfeld
#95. I had to have the record literally taken away from me. I am such a perfectionist.
Zachary Cole Smith
#96. I'm not a perfectionist by a long shot, but self-doubt is a large part of my creative process.
Keith Fullerton Whitman
#97. I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
Samantha Shannon
#98. I'm not a perfectionist, but I like to feel that things are done well
Cristiano Ronaldo
#99. I stress out a lot. Being a perfectionist doesn't help with that!
Ryan Newman
#100. I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.
Camilo Villegas
